Title: Public Service Commission Of Wisconsin: Progress File
Inclusive Dates: 1905-1972

Creator:

• Public Service Commission of Wisconsin

Call Number: Series 1825

Quantity: 7.2 c.f. (18 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Informational memoranda concerning accounting practices, rate setting, railroad accidents, regulation of cable television, revision of statutes, relations with local and state-wide utilities such as the Wisconsin Telephone Co., and general matters before the commission. Also included are speeches and writings pertaining to A.R. Colbert, Adolph Kanneberg, David E. Lilienthal, Robert Nixon, Alvin Reis, and other members of the commission. Although most of the files pertain to the Public Service Commission, a few document its predecessor, the Railroad Commission.

Language: English

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All of these files are labelled C-1, and they are related to similar “C” files in General Regulatory Correspondence, Series 1254; and Progress File, Series 1284.

Series 1825 now includes former Series 1937 and Series 2160 and portions of 1980/244.

Box   1	AT&T, 1938
Box   1	Abandonments, 1943-1969
Box   1	Accidents, 1961-1970 Physical Description: (8 folders)
Box   1	Accounting, 1935-1964
	Accounts-Classification of
Box   1	1934-35 Physical Description: (3 folders)
Box   2	1931-1945, 1966 Physical Description: (3 folders)
	Accounting
Box   2	Investigations of, 1933-1943
Box   2	Merchandise, 1936, 1938
Box   2	Accounts and Finance, 1935, 1938, 1939
Box   2	Accretion-Surplus, 1959
Box   2	Acquisition memos, 1924-1940 Physical Description: (2 folders)
Box   2	Acquisitions-Municipal, 1933-1958 Physical Description: (2 folders)
Box   2	Administrative Power, 1938
Box   2	Affiliated Interests, 1934-1938
Box   2	Agent-Station, 1944-1966
Box   2	Agreements-Joint Pole, 1955-1956
Box   2	Agreements-Territorial, 1955-1958
Box   2	American Gas Co., 1965-1967
Box   3	American Water Works Construction Co., 1934
Box   3	Amery, WI, 1953
Box   3	Anderson, W.A., 1934
Box   3	Annual Reports, 1934, 1963
Box   3	Antennae- (CATV), 1965
Box   4	Antennae-(CATV), continued, 1965-1972
Box   4	Antigo, WI, 1934
Box   4	Appraisals, 1914-1935
Box   4	Argyle, WI, 1934-1940
Box   4	Atlasta Telephone Co., 1937
Box   4	Back-Billing, 1932
Box   4	Bankruptcy Act, 1936
Box   4	Beaver Dam, WI, 1937
Box   4	Belmont, WI, 1942
Box   4	Benton, WI, 1964
Box   4	Bills of Lading, 1938
Box   4	Black Earth, WI, 1932, 1942
Box   4	Black River Falls, WI, 1942-1943
Box   4	Bloomer Telephone Co., 1961
Box   4	Boscobel, WI, 1932, 1942
Box   4	Bridge-Draw, 1966
Box   4	Bridges-Toll, 1949
Box   4	Brillion, 1940
Box   4	Brodhead, WI, 1936
Box   4	Brown, Timothy, 1949
Box   4	Browy, Calmer, 1936,1946
Box   4	Cambridge, WI 1935
	Cars
Box   4	Bad Order, 1945
Box   4	Railroad, 1954
Box   4	Cashton, 1940, 1942
Box   4	Cattle-Guards, 1938, 1953
Box   4	Centennial exhibits, 1905-1936
Box   4	Central Union Telephone Co., 1931
Box   4	Central Wisconsin Gas Co., 1939-1944
Box   5	Charge-Minimum, 1935
Box   5	Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., 1955
Box   5	Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, & Pacific Railroad Co., 1937-1965
Box   5	Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, 1933-1938
Box   5	Chicago and North Western Railway Co., 1938-1965
Box   5	Chippewa Falls, 1940
Box   5	City Gas Co., 1965
Box   5	City Water Company of Marinette & Merrill, 1934,1938
Box   5	Clam River Electric Co., 1934
Box   5	Classification, Change in, 1953
Box   5	Clearances, 1935-1963
Box   5	Coal, 1933-1961
Box   5	Coal-Oil and Labor, 1932
Box   5	Code-Electric, 1936-1968
Box   5	Colbert, A.R., 1938-1964 Physical Description: (2 folders)
Box   5	Columbus, WI, 1934,1942
	Commission-Railroad-History
Box   5	1925-1929 Physical Description: (2 folders)
Box   6	1925-1929 Physical Description: (2 folders)
Box   6	Commonwealth Edison Co., 1939
Box   6	Commonwealth and Consolidated Telephone Co., 1930-1949
Box   6	Community Telephone Co., 1934-1940
Box   6	Comparative Income Accounts-Operating Results, 1932-1967
Box   6	Consolidated Water Power Co., 1966
Box   6	Contract, 1939
Box   6	Contract Power Rates, 1934
Box   6	Contract Rentals, 1934
Box   6	Contract-War, 1944
Box   6	Cooperatives, 1935-1965
Box   6	Cornell, WI, 1939
Box   6	Cost Accounting, 1934-1946
Box   6	Costs-Apportionments of, 1952-1965
Box   6	Crossings, 1937-1967
Box   6	Crestwood Sanitary District, 1942
Box   6	Cross Plains Electric Company, 1940
Box   6	Cuba City, WI, 1939-1940
Box   6	Cumberland Municipal, 1940
Box   6	Customers-Classification of, 1934,1937
Box   6	Customers-Donations, 1931-1957
Box   6	Dahlberg Power & Light Co., 1938,1966
Box   6	Damage-Claims, 1968
Box   6	Damage-Storm, 1958
Box   6	Deerfield, WI, 1937-1944
Box   6	Defense, 1941-1942
Box   6	Dekorra Farmers Mutual Telephone Co., 1931-1932
Box   6	De Pere Light and Power Co., 1935
Box   6	Depots, 1949
Box   7	Depreciation, 1933-1941, 1955 Physical Description: (4 folders)
Box   7	Diesel Electric Power, 1933-1934
Box   7	Dinneen, William, 1931-1942
Box   7	Director, 1938
Box   7	Directories-Telephone, 1938-1958
Box   7	District-Power, 1936
Box   7	District-Sanitary, 1936-1949
Box   7	District-Water, 1956,1965
Box   7	Dresser Municipal Water Rate Revision, 1944
Box   7	Durand Water Department, 1939
Box   7	Duties of Other State Departments, 1939
Box   7	Eagle River, 1936,1939
Box   7	Earnings-Comparison of, 1965-1966
Box   7	Economic Trends, 1963-1967,1969 Physical Description: (6 folders)
Box   8	Educational Program, 1939-1940
Box   8	Electric, 1967
Box   8	Elk Creek Power Co., 1936,1941
Box   8	Elkhorn, WI, 1935
Box   8	Emergency Planning, 1968
Box   8	Employment-Equal Opportunity, 1968
Box   8	Employees-Railroad, 1951
Box   8	Energy, 1954
Box   8	Energy-Wholesale, 1934
Box   8	Engineering Department, 1934-1951
Box   8	Equipment-Metering, 1933
Box   8	Equipment-Railroad, 1954
Box   8	Equipment-Standby, 1967
Box   8	Equity Telephone Co., 1940,1943
Box   8	Examining, 1938-1940
Box   8	Excerpts from Court Decisions, 1964 Physical Description: (2 folders)
Box   8	Extensions & Additions, 1933-1942
Box   8	Extensions-Electric, 1936,1939,1944
Box   8	Extensions-Gas, 1967
Box   8	Extensions-Telephone, 1933-1959
Box   8	Extensions-Water, 1933-1947
Box   8	Fagan, Jack, 1939
Box   8	Farmers Telephone Co. of Merrimac & Sumpter, 1932
Box   8	Federal Communications Commission, 1936,1945
Box   8	Federal Power Commission, 1937-1967
Box   8	Federal Public Service Corporation, 1933,1940
Box   8	Federal Tax, 1932,1933,1952
Box   8	Fees-Collection, 1935
Box   8	Fees-Management, 1934
Box   8	Fees-Messenger, 1935
Box   8	Fennimore Municipal Plant, 1932
Box   8	Fence, 1953
Box   8	FERA, 1934
Box   8	Ferguson, H.T., 1939-1943
Box   8	Finance, 1938-1966
Box   8	Fixed Charge Rates, 1935-1936
Box   8	Flagman, 1939
Box   8	Footville Municipal Electric Utility, 1940
Box   8	Fox Point, WI, 1932-1946
Box   8	Franchises, 1965
Box   8	Full Crew, 1935-1966
Box   8	Funds-Impounded, 1937
	Gas
Box   9	Natural, 1957,1960
Box   9	Supplies of, 1951-1952
Box   9	General Telephone Co., 1963-1966
Box   9	Generating Data, 1938
Box   9	Gilmanton Roller Mills Co., 1939
Box   9	Going Value, 1941
Box   9	Grafton Water Rate Reduction, 1941
Box   9	Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Company, 1967
Box   9	Green Bay Water Department, 1935
Box   9	Green, R. Floyd, no date
Box   9	Gresham, WI, 1967
Box   9	Harrower, no date
Box   9	Hartford, WI, 1940
Box   9	Hartland Municipal Water Utility, 1940
Box   9	Haydon, C.B., 1937,1940-1941
Box   9	Hazel Green Municipal Water Utility, 1939
Box   9	Hearings, 1940
Box   9	Hill Farms, S.O.B., 1965
Box   9	Holding Companies, 1967
Box   9	Hunt, Fred S., 1934-1939
Box   9	Hussa Brothers Light & Power Co., 1932
Box   9	Hustisford Light & Power, Electric & Utility, 1935,1939
Box   9	Illinois Central Railway Co., 1940
Box   9	Inductive Interference, Grounded Telephone Line & Source Line Parallels, 1938
Box   9	Intercept Service, 1968
Box   9	Interconnections, 1952-1953
Box   9	Interstate Commerce Commission, 1939-1953
Box   9	Interstate Light & Power Co., 1939-1941
Box   9	Interstate Light & Power Co. of Delaware, 1934
Box   9	Interstate Power Co. of WI, 1933-1941
Box   9	Iron River Electric Transport Co., 1938
Box   9	Jefferson Water & Light-Municipal Utility, 1939,1941
Box   9	Juneau, WI, 1934
Box   9	Kanneberg, Adolph, 1928-1972 Physical Description: (4 folders)
Box   10	Kaukauna, WI, 1939-1958
Box   10	Kaveny, Edward T., 1912, 1947
Box   10	Kewawnee Municipal Electric Utility, 1938,1941
Box   10	La Crosse, WI, 1938
Box   10	La Farge, WI, 1944
Box   10	Lake Superior District Power Co., 1932-1940
Box   10	Lamp Renewals, 1933
Box   10	Laona Public Service, 1940
Box   10	Laws, 1905-1911, 1937-1943 Physical Description: (3 folders)
Box   10	Legal, 1937-1969
Box   10	Library, 1938-1945
Box   10	Lilenthal, David E., 1931-1933
	Lines
Box   10	Maintenance of & Abandonment of, 1933-1956
Box   10	Metallicizing, 1948
Box   10	Little Chute, WI, 1944
Box   10	Loans-REA, 1954,1956
Box   11	Madison Bus Co., 1940
Box   11	Madison Gas & Electric Co., 1934-1967
Box   11	Madison Railways, 1931-1939
Box   11	Madison, WI, 1934-1936
Box   11	Mains, Replacement of, 1953,1955
Box   11	Manitowoc, WI, 1936,1964
Box   11	Marathon Paper Mills Co., 1932
Box   11	Markesan Telephone Co. Report, 1938
Box   11	Marshfield Electric & Water Dept., 1937,1940
Box   11	Marshfield Telephone Exchange, 1932
Box   11	Mazomanie Light & Water Utility, 1934
Box   11	McDonald, Andrew R., 1931-1937
Box   11	Menominee & Marinette Light & Traction Co., 1934-1939
Box   11	Menomonee Falls Water Utility , 1943
Box   11	Menomonie Junction, 1938-1939
Box   11	Menomoie, WI, 1933
Box   11	Merchandising, 1966
Box   11	Meters, 1938-1967
Box   11	Middleton, WI, 1939
Box   11	Mid-Plains Telephone, Inc., 1966
Box   11	Milwaukee, 1938-1965
Box   11	Milwaukee Electric Railway & Transport Co., 1939-1941
Box   11	Milwaukee, St. Paul & Sault St. Marie Railway Co., 1939
Box   11	Milwaukee Water Works, 1924-1939
Box   11	Mississippi Valley Public Service Co., 1939,1941-1942
Box   11	Miscellaneous, 1956
Box   11	Monfort Water Plant, 1936
Box   11	Monticello, WI, 1934
Box   11	Morehouse, E.W., 1934-1940
Box   11	Motor Carrier Section, 1943,1946
Box   11	Municipal Rate Cases, 1934
Box   11	Muscoda, WI, 1942
Box   11	NRA, 1933
Box   11	Natural Gas, 1933-1958
Box   11	Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, 1940
Box   11	Neenah Civic Advancement Assn., 1936
Box   11	Nekoosa-Edwards Light & Power Co., 1939-1940
Box   11	New Auburn Telephone Co., 1949
Box   11	New Glarus, WI 1934, 1937
Box   11	New Holstein Electric & Water Department , 1937-1939
Box   11	New Lisbon, WI, 1934, 1939
Box   11	New London, 1938, 1942
Box   11	New Richmond, 1930, 1933, 1940
Box   12	Nixon, Robert, 1937-1942
Box   12	Non-Partisan Commissions, 1933
Box   12	North American Operating Companies, 1932
Box   12	North Central Public Service Corp., 1964
Box   12	Northern Pacific Railway Co., 1961
Box   12	Northern Power Company, 1938
Box   12	Northern States Power Co. of Minnesota, 1935,1937,1965
Box   12	Northern States Power Co. of Wisconsin, 1931-1966
Box   12	Northern Wisconsin Power Company, 1942
Box   12	Northwest Telephone Company , 1935-1966
Box   12	Northwestern Wisconsin Electric Co., 1937-1938
Box   12	Oconomowoc Electric & Water Operations, 1932-1941
Box   12	Oconto City Water Supply Co., 1934
Box   12	Ojibwa Sales Co., 1943
Box   12	Ordinance Creating Utility Commission, 1938
Box   12	Oregon Electric Company, 1936
Box   12	Pardeeville Electric Light Co., 1943
Box   12	Passes-Railroad, 1936-1956
Box   12	Payroll-Class A Utilities, 1933-1934
Box   12	Payroll-Schedules of, 1935
Box   12	Peterson, R.W., 1938-1944
Box   12	Plants-Interlocking, 1945
Box   12	Pleasant Springs Light & Power Co., 1940
Box   12	Plymouth, WI, 1939-1965
Box   12	Poles, 1934
Box   12	Polk Burnett Light & Power Co., 1932
Box   12	Poplar Telephone Co., 1939
Box   12	Port Washington, WI, 1937
Box   12	Porter Electric Line Co., 1938-1939
Box   12	Power-Federal, 1952
Box   12	Power, Failure of, 1967
Box   12	Power, Generation Tax, 1933
Box   12	Practice & Procedures, 1970
Box   12	Price County Telephone Co., 1967
Box   12	Price Trends, 1931,1953
Box   12	Princeton, WI, 1939,1943
	Promotional Practices
Box   12	1967-1968
Box   13	1969-1971
Box   13	Prospect Guther and Big Bend Telephone Co., 1937
Box   13	Purclear, R.E., 1937
Box   13	Railroad station, 1937-1958
Box   13	Railways, Electric, 1939
Box   13	Rates, 1951
Box   13	Rates and research, 1931-1943
Box   13	Rates, Comparison of
Box   13	Rates, Electric, 1935-1938
Box   13	Rates, Freight, 1932-1958
Box   13	Rates, Gas, 1935-1938
Box   13	Rates, Increases, 1942
Box   13	Rates, Making, 1946-1962
Box   13	Rates, Motor carrier, 1947
Box   13	Rates, Railroads, 1942-1959
Box   13	Rate reductions, 1938-1947, n.d.
Box   13	Rate reductions, Temporary, 1932
Box   13	Rural tenant houses, 1932-1936
Box   13	Rates, switching, 1932
Box   13	Rates, Telephone
Box   13	Rates, Trucks, 1939-1943
Box   13	TVA, 1933
Box   13	Rates, Water, 1932-1955
Box   13	Rates, Wholesale, 1935-1936
Box   14	Reedstown Municipal Light and Water Utility, 1931-1940
Box   14	Records and accounting, 1934-1949
Box   14	Refunds, Gas, 1957-1963
Box   14	Regulations, Federal, 1934-1938
Box   14	Reis, Alvin, 1932-1935
Box   14	Reports of accidents
Box   14	Reports, Annual
Box   14	Reports, General and confidential, 1951-1952
Box   14	Reporters, 1931-1948
Box   14	Return, Rate of
Box   14	Reynolds, P.A., 1944
Box   14	Rice Lake, 1934-1940
Box   14	Richland Center, 1938-1939
Box   14	River Falls, 1938-1939
Box   14	Roadway companies, 1934
Box   14	Rules, Entrance wiring, 1935
Box   14	Rural electrification, 1935-1939
Box   14	Rust Owen Lumber Co , 1939
Box   14	Safety devices, 1933-1959
Box   14	Salaries, Utility, 1962
Box   14	Sales, Classification of, 1933-1937
Box   14	Sales, Comparisons of kilowatt hours, 1935-1940
Box   14	School buses, 1937
	Securities
Box   14	Buckman B.E. & Co., 1937-1939
Box   14	Correspondence, 1932-1939
Box   14	Docket reports, 1931-1939
Box   15	General, 1931-1939
Box   15	Telegrams, 1939
Box   15	Utilities
	Service
Box   15	Disconnection of
Box   15	Extended area of, 1953
Box   15	Investigations of, 1947
Box   15	Electric, 1941
Box   15	Interruptions of
Box   15	Passenger, 1952
Box   15	Telephone
Box   15	Value of, 1936
Box   15	Severance damage, 1931-1934
Box   15	Sewerage systems, 1933-1940
Box   15	Shawano Electric Utility, 1939-1944
Box   15	Sheboygan Falls Electric Utility, 1944
Box   15	Shorewood, 1939
Box   15	Shullsburg Municipal Utility, 1942
Box   15	Sick Leave, 1937
Box   15	Signal plans approvals
Box   15	Slinger Electric Utility, 1939-1942
Box   15	Southwestern Wisconsin Gas co., 1939-1940
Box   15	Spooner Municipal Utility, 1938-1955
Box   15	St. Croix Wisconsin Improvement Co., 1937
Box   15	Statements, Publication of
Box   15	Standards, 1935-1937
Box   15	State Utility Corporation, 1937
	Statutes
Box   15	General, 1938-1939
Box   15	Enforcement of, 1959
Box   15	Interpretations, 1938-1957
Box   15	Printing
Box   15	Reports
Box   16	Revision, 1933-1955
Box   16	Steering Committee, 1933-1936
Box   16	Steinmetz, George P., 1937-1963
Box   16	Stoughton Light & Fuel Company, 1933-1962
Box   16	Stratford Electric Utility, 1938-1942
Box   16	Strikes, 1967
Box   16	Sturgeon Bay Utilities Commission, 1937-1939
Box   16	Submetering, 1959
Box   16	Superior Association of commerce, 1937
Box   16	Superior Heat, Light, and Power co
Box   16	Switchboards, 1945
Box   16	Surveys
Box   16	Sylvan Electric co., 1937
Box   16	Tariff approvals
Box   16	Tariff changes, 1942, 1956
Box   16	Taxes, 1934
Box   16	Tax, Excess profits, 1944
Box   16	Taxes, Federal
Box   16	Tax, Gasoline, 1935-1954
Box   16	Tax, Sales, 1963
Box   16	Telephone
Box   16	Telephone answering device, 1952-1954
Box   16	Telephones, Problems of small companies, 1948-1950
Box   16	Thornapple, 1939
Box   16	Tilden Electric Light and Power Co., 1940
Box   16	Trackless trolleys, 1932-1940
Box   16	Traffic Department, 1931-1948
Box   16	Transportation, 1935, 1963
Box   16	Two Rivers, 1938-1940
Box   17	United States Congress, 1937
Box   17	US Geological Survey, 1931
Box   17	United Telephone Co., 1955
Box   17	Universal Telephone, Inc.
	Utilities
Box   17	Municipal, 1932-1939
Box   17	Public, 1932-1960
Box   17	Telephone independent companies, 1934
Box   17	Water, 1933-1960
Box   17	Valuations, 1933-1960
Box   17	Verona, 1935
Box   17	Viola, 1943
Box   17	Viroqua, 1938
Box   17	War, Effect on utilities, 1943
Box   17	Washburn, 1931-1942
Box   17	Waterloo, 1931-1942
Box   17	Water power act, 1952
Box   17	Waukesha, 1952
Box   17	Waunakee, 1938, 1057
Box   17	Waupun Municipal Utility, 1938-1945
Box   17	Wausau Street
Box   17	Wauwautosa, 1938
Box   17	Welders, Arc, 1945
Box   17	West Allis, 1939
Box   17	Westby 1931, 1942
Box   17	Western Union, 1955-1956
Box   17	Whitehall, 1942-1943
Box   17	Whitewater, 1940-1941
Box   17	Whitney, John C., 1938-1948
Box   17	Willow River Power Co., 1934
Box   17	Wisconsin Dells, 1940-1946
Box   17	Wisconsin Electric Power co., 1932-1940
Box   17	Wisconsin Fuel and Light Co., 1932-1966
Box   17	Wisconsin Gas Co
Box   17	Wisconsin Hydro Electric co., 1933-1940
Box   17	Wisconsin-Michigan Power Co.
Box   17	Wisconsin Natural Gas Co.
Box   17	Wisconsin Power and Light Co., 1931-1939
Box   18	Wisconsin Power and Light Co., continued
Box   18	Wisconsin Public Service Corporation
Box   18	Wisconsin Public Utility Co., 1934
Box   18	Wisconsin Rapids, 1933-1940
Box   18	Wisconsin Telephone Co., 1931-1967
Box   18	Wisconsin Valley Electric Co., 1932-1934
Box   18	Wisconsin Valley Improvement Co., 1958
Box   18	Wood County Telephone Co.